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EisnerAmper’s Trends Watch is a weekly entry to our Alternative Investments Intelligence blog, featuring the views of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to Mike DiPiano, Managing General Partner, NewSpring Capital.

At our second annual Alternative Investment Summit in New York, panelists discussed the current state of the private equity industry and the outlook for the remainder of 2017.

EisnerAmper’s Trends Watch is a weekly entry to our Alternative Investments Intelligence blog, featuring the views and insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to Parul Dubey, Vice President, Yenni Capital.

Given the confluence of factors needed for ride-sharing companies to successfully disrupt the transportation industry, there is a growing opinion that a comparable set of factors are lending itself to the rise of AI-driven hedge funds.

Q2 2017 showed an increase from Q1 in terms of venture capital dollars invested; however, the number of companies receiving funding remained relatively stable. Also, IPO markets come back to life and later stage deals continue to increase.

Our Alternative Investments blog, features the views and insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to Jeff Baehr, Founder & CEO, RueOne Investments.

Many of the investors flocking to alternative investments have limited understanding of them. The contraction of the current ‘mega manager’ dominance will see a redistribution of assets toward smaller and mid-sized managers.

At the EisnerAmper CFO Roundtable, industry veteran Michael Merrigan of Shadmoor Advisors LLC in New York, emphasized three key traits managers should exhibit to enhance their chances of successfully passing the operational due diligence process.

The investing environment will be characterized by bursts of volatility within different asset classes as investors try to understand the implications of less accommodative monetary policy, changes in tax regimes and a potential walk-back in regulation.

EisnerAmper recently co-hosted The Art of the Seed Deal with Kleinberg Kaplan Wolf Cohen. Speakers discussed their process for seeding managers, how they evaluate managers and what they focus on throughout the evaluation process.

This week, Elana talks to Maneesh Shanbhag, Co-Founder and Partner, Greenline Partners.

2016 compared quite favorably to a typical year for venture capital investing in terms of deal activity and funding. Here are the highlights.

The investing outlook for 2017 and beyond is in a state of anticipation. How will President Donald Trump and his policies impact the landscape? At the CBSACNY Investing Outlook Event a trio of industry veteran panelists shared some of their views.

Trends Watch is a weekly entry to our Alternative Investments Intelligence blog, featuring the views and insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week Elana speaks with Justin Frankel, Co-Portfolio Manager, RiverPark Structural Alpha Fund.

This week, Elana talks to David Dardashti, Portfolio Manager, Partner, Mulholland Vista Capital Advisors.

EisnerAmper’s Alternative Investments Intelligence Trends Watch blog features the views and insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners.

This week, Elana talks to Boris Stavrev at Concise Capital Management about the outlook for the alternative investment industry and the economy.

We can expect increases in labor productivity from technology, decreasing workforce participation and capital expenditures in the long term. Corporations will use more capital on acquisitions, share buybacks and dividends.

The future for the alternative investment industry is bright and will play a pivotal role in portfolio construction going forward. An allocation to alternative investments is an effective tool to minimize the impact of a large correction in bonds.

The notion that anything that ties up money for more than a year or two is somehow taking on much higher risk is simply off-base. Investors often don’t realize how much extra return they can generate by having more patience with their investments.